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Looking Back: Habeas Corpus – Now More Than Ever

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|Date: June 20, 2021
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Looking Back: Habeas Corpus – Now More Than Ever

By Jeffrey Deskovic "Looking back" will feature reprints of articles that Jeff previously wrote while a c ...

By Jeffrey Deskovic "Looking back" will feature reprints of articles that Jeff previously wrote while a columnist at The Westchester Guardian, which encompass topics that are applicable here in CA as ...

June 20, 2021
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U.S. Assigns $2.9 Billion in Compensation to Exonerees – Number of Collective Years Served by Wrongfully Accused Reaches 25,000 Years.

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|Date: June 18, 2021
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U.S. Assigns $2.9 Billion in Compensation to Exonerees – Number of Collective Years Served by Wrongfully Accused Reaches 25,000 Years.

By Sydney Kaplan and Koda Slingluff "Freedom" is a word that, for many, is closely tied with the United S ...

By Sydney Kaplan and Koda Slingluff "Freedom" is a word that, for many, is closely tied with the United States. But for others, the United States’ justice system is precisely what stripped that freedo ...

June 18, 2021
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New Forensic Evidence, Suppressed Evidence Exonerates Chester Hollman – Wrongfully Convicted for 28 Years

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|Date: June 18, 2021
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New Forensic Evidence, Suppressed Evidence Exonerates Chester Hollman – Wrongfully Convicted for 28 Years

(Editor’s note: The Philadelphia DA’s Office released the first of what will be regular reports on the wo ...

(Editor’s note: The Philadelphia DA’s Office released the first of what will be regular reports on the work of the CIU, which in fewer than four years has helped secure the exonerations of 20 people i ...

June 18, 2021
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Walter Ogrod, Death Row Inmate, Exonerated after 28 Years

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|Date: June 17, 2021
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Walter Ogrod, Death Row Inmate, Exonerated after 28 Years

By Peter Eibert and Ankita Joshi (Editor’s note: The Philadelphia DA’s Office released the first of what ...

By Peter Eibert and Ankita Joshi (Editor’s note: The Philadelphia DA’s Office released the first of what will be regular reports on the work of the CIU, which in fewer than four years has helped secur ...

June 17, 2021
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Krasner’s Office Releases Report on More than 20 People Exonerated During His First Term in Office

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|Date: June 16, 2021
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Krasner’s Office Releases Report on More than 20 People Exonerated During His First Term in Office

By David M. Greenwald Philadelphia – Calling the work of the Philadephia DA’s Conviction Integrity Unit “ ...

By David M. Greenwald Philadelphia – Calling the work of the Philadephia DA’s Conviction Integrity Unit “historic” and an “incredible achievement, especially compared to what happened in prior adminis ...

June 16, 2021
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Looking Back: When Shaky Eyewitness Testimony Trumps Alibi Witness Testimony

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|Date: June 13, 2021
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Looking Back: When Shaky Eyewitness Testimony Trumps Alibi Witness Testimony

By Jeffrey Deskovic "Looking back" will feature reprints of articles that Jeff previously wrote while a c ...

By Jeffrey Deskovic "Looking back" will feature reprints of articles that Jeff previously wrote while a columnist at The Westchester Guardian, which encompass topics that are applicable here in CA as ...

June 13, 2021
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Looking Back: When Shaky Eyewitness Testimony Trumps Alibi Witness Testimony

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|Date: June 06, 2021
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Looking Back: When Shaky Eyewitness Testimony Trumps Alibi Witness Testimony

By Jeffrey Deskovic "Looking back" will feature reprints of articles that Jeff previously wrote while a c ...

By Jeffrey Deskovic "Looking back" will feature reprints of articles that Jeff previously wrote while a columnist at The Westchester Guardian, which encompass topics that are applicable here in CA as ...

June 06, 2021
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Commentary: We Talk about Qualified Immunity, How about Police Accountability for False Confessions and False Testimony?

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|Date: June 02, 2021
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Commentary: We Talk about Qualified Immunity, How about Police Accountability for False Confessions and False Testimony?

By David M. Greenwald A recent focus in police reform has zeroed in on qualified immunity. This is an im ...

By David M. Greenwald A recent focus in police reform has zeroed in on qualified immunity. This is an important focus because qualified immunity helps to protect not only law enforcement officers, bu ...

June 02, 2021
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Looking Back: Harmless Error – Is It Ever Really Harmless?

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|Date: May 30, 2021
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Looking Back: Harmless Error – Is It Ever Really Harmless?

by Jeffrey Deskovic "Looking back" will feature reprints of articles that Jeff previously wrote while a c ...

by Jeffrey Deskovic "Looking back" will feature reprints of articles that Jeff previously wrote while a columnist at The Westchester Guardian, which encompass topics that are applicable here in CA as ...

May 30, 2021
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Guest Commentary: What Larry Krasner’s Primary Win Means for Criminal Legal Reform – and How He Can Go Further

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|Date: May 29, 2021
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Guest Commentary: What Larry Krasner’s Primary Win Means for Criminal Legal Reform – and How He Can Go Further

Krasner has tackled some of the great injustices that his predecessors carried out. He also has more work ...

Krasner has tackled some of the great injustices that his predecessors carried out. He also has more work to do to effectively improve the criminal legal system in Philadelphia. By Reggie Shuford The ...

May 29, 2021
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Looking Back: Recent Rash of Exonerations Only the Surface – Many More Remain Wrongfully Imprisoned

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|Date: May 23, 2021
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Looking Back: Recent Rash of Exonerations Only the Surface – Many More Remain Wrongfully Imprisoned

By Jeffrey Deskovic Editor’s note: (This column was originally published in 2014). "Looking back" will fe ...

By Jeffrey Deskovic Editor’s note: (This column was originally published in 2014). "Looking back" will feature reprints of articles that Jeff previously wrote while a columnist at The Westchester Guar ...

May 23, 2021
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Manhattan DA Candidates Promise Conviction Integrity Units – but There Are Doubts

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|Date: May 20, 2021
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Manhattan DA Candidates Promise Conviction Integrity Units – but There Are Doubts

By Ankita Joshi MANHATTAN, NY - Dan Quart, district attorney candidate in Manhattan, has promised to buil ...

By Ankita Joshi MANHATTAN, NY - Dan Quart, district attorney candidate in Manhattan, has promised to build a robust conviction integrity unit that “roots out injustice and exonerates wrongfully convic ...

May 20, 2021
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Looking Back: A Man Wrongfully Incarcerated Becomes a Prison Reformer

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|Date: May 17, 2021
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Looking Back: A Man Wrongfully Incarcerated Becomes a Prison Reformer

After spending 16 years wrongfully incarcerated, Jeffrey Deskovic could have re-entered society bitter an ...

After spending 16 years wrongfully incarcerated, Jeffrey Deskovic could have re-entered society bitter and downtrodden. Instead, he began to exhaustively work to help others in his situation. "Looking ...

May 17, 2021
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Looking Back: Christmas in Jail Is Worse than You Can Imagine. Now Imagine If You’ve Been Wrongfully Convicted

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|Date: May 09, 2021
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Looking Back: Christmas in Jail Is Worse than You Can Imagine. Now Imagine If You’ve Been Wrongfully Convicted

I spent 16 holidays behind bars for a crime I didn’t commit. How many other innocent men must have years ...

I spent 16 holidays behind bars for a crime I didn’t commit. How many other innocent men must have years stolen by a corrupt system? By Jeffrey Deskovic "Looking back" will feature reprints of article ...

May 09, 2021
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Looking Back: Careers in the Innocence Movement

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|Date: May 02, 2021
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Looking Back: Careers in the Innocence Movement

by Jeffrey Deskovic "Looking back" will feature reprints of articles that Jeff previously wrote while a c ...

by Jeffrey Deskovic "Looking back" will feature reprints of articles that Jeff previously wrote while a columnist at The Westchester Guardian, which encompass topics that are applicable here in CA as ...

May 02, 2021
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Defendant Lectured by Judge, Faces Possible Sentence to State Prison after Violating Multiple Probation Terms over 5 Years

Posted by Michelle Lagos
|Date: April 27, 2021
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Defendant Lectured by Judge, Faces Possible Sentence to State Prison after Violating Multiple Probation Terms over 5 Years

By Roselyn Poommai SACRAMENTO, CA - After dodging accumulated probation jail terms for the past five year ...

By Roselyn Poommai SACRAMENTO, CA - After dodging accumulated probation jail terms for the past five years and disappearing on his probation officer, defendant Patrick Batad was seriously lectured in ...

April 27, 2021
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Looking Back: A Cop’s Cop – Profile of Jim Trainum

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|Date: April 25, 2021
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Looking Back: A Cop’s Cop – Profile of Jim Trainum

By Jeffrey Deskovic "Looking back" will feature reprints of articles that Jeff previously wrote while a c ...

By Jeffrey Deskovic "Looking back" will feature reprints of articles that Jeff previously wrote while a columnist at The Westchester Guardian, which encompass topics that are applicable here in CA as ...

April 25, 2021
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Innocence Project Details Connections between Wrongful Convictions and Police Accountability

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|Date: April 23, 2021
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Innocence Project Details Connections between Wrongful Convictions and Police Accountability

By Michael Wheeler NEW YORK, NY – Since the Ferguson shooting in 2014, activists have made the point agai ...

By Michael Wheeler NEW YORK, NY – Since the Ferguson shooting in 2014, activists have made the point again and again: the American criminal justice system is broken. How to fix it, however, remains a ...

April 23, 2021
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 102 – George Ryan and Ending the Illinois Death Penalty

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|Date: April 19, 2021
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 102 – George Ryan and Ending the Illinois Death Penalty

George Ryan was a Republican Governor of Illinois. He started his career as an advocate for the death pen ...

George Ryan was a Republican Governor of Illinois. He started his career as an advocate for the death penalty. But during his time as Governor, between cases of wrongful convictions and a torture scan ...

April 19, 2021
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Looking Back: A Glimpse into the Suffering of Families of the Wrongfully Convicted

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|Date: April 18, 2021
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Looking Back: A Glimpse into the Suffering of Families of the Wrongfully Convicted

By Jeffrey Deskovic "Looking back" will feature reprints of articles that Jeff previously wrote while a c ...

By Jeffrey Deskovic "Looking back" will feature reprints of articles that Jeff previously wrote while a columnist at The Westchester Guardian, which encompass topics that are applicable here in CA as ...

April 18, 2021
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